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California Indian Scholars and Allies Respond and Reflect Registration required: https://bit.ly/cmsconference Zoom meeting ID: 375 481 4783 Speakers include Deborah Miranda (Ohlone Costanoan Esselen/Chumash), Caroline Ward-Holland (Fernandino Tataviam), Yve Chavez (Tongva), Olivia Chilcote (Luiseño, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians), Val Lopez (Amah Mutsun), Renya Ramirez (Ho-Chunk/Ojibwe), Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hoopa Valley), Stan Rodriguez…

Leading in the pursuit of understanding and addressing the ongoing trauma created by the US Indian Boarding School policy, NABS was created to develop and implement a national strategy that increases public awareness and cultivates healing for the profound trauma experienced by individuals, families, communities, and Tribal Nations resulting from the U.S. adoption and implementation…

This session invites a panel of California leaders, researchers, and archivists to provide context and feedback on a variety of issues related to Indian Boarding School records, including where records might be, what types of records should be searched for, and what should be done with the records. NABS will introduce finding aides, inventories, and…

Offering valuable context for the experiences and histories of Sherman Institute, this session features the work of the Sherman Indian Museum led by curators, Lorene Sisquoc and Amanda Wixon. Though Sherman Institute was the first off-reservation boarding school in California under the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the museum exists today as a non-federally operated entity.…

Part 2: From Land-grab to Land Acknowledgement and Beyond Wide-scale U.S. higher education began in 1862 when the Morrill Act provided each state with “public” lands to sell for the establishment of university endowments. The public land-grant university movement is lauded as the first major federal funding for higher education and for making liberal and…

San Diego State University Assistant Professor Olivia Chilcote (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) has been a Critical Mission Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Riverside over the past year. She will be giving a presentation on her research on October 29, at 4PM. This will be a Zoom event,…

On Friday, November 20 Save California Salmon is hosting a Dam Removal Update and Community Celebration. Due to COVID-19 this will happen via zoom at 5:30 PST. Register at tinyurl.com/UndamtheKlamath2020 or watch live on Facebook.⁣ ⁣ They will get updates from the Klamath dam removal entity and the Tribes from the Klamath River on the…

Hosted by the UCLA School of Law The 2020 national election saw a record number of Indigenous and Native American law makers elected to congress and long overdue recognition of the power of the Native American vote in swing states like Arizona and Wisconsin. While this sudden spotlight on Native Americans surprised many, this growth…

The Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association is hosting a talk with co-author Eugene Meieran and editor Alan Garfinkel. This talk is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.   Register here - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UThBfvkmTGaqz5uHfgFB2g

California Consortium for Urban Indian Health Executive Director, Virginia Hedrick goes live with Assemblymember James C. Ramos for a discussion on COVID-19 vaccines, the facts and misinformation surrounding them, and their importance for American Indian & Alaska Native communities in the wake of the pandemic.